From: Richard Faulkner 
Newsgroups: uk.finance
Subject: Re: House prices show August fall
Date: Thu, 14 Oct 2004 11:30:17 +0100

In message , Timothy Lee 
 writes
>In message , Richard Faulkner 
> writes
>>In message , Ronald 
>>Raygun  writes
>>>She has identified a negative second derivative
>>
>>I dont think she did it knowingly 
>>
>>What is it?
>
>A decrease in the rate of increase!
>eg:  you are travelling at 5 miles per hour
>you are accelerating at 2 miles per hour per hour
>the rate at which you are accelerating is decreasing by 1 mile per hour 
>per hour per hour
>
>If that stays the same after two hours you will stop accelerating, 
>however you would still be travelling forwards
>

Sounds a bit like the differentiation and integration I did at 'A' Level 
nearly 30 years ago.

-- 
Richard Faulkner